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Don't Dump Investors
Introducing the Hope Now program in 2007, President Bush said “weve got a role, the government has got a role to play — but it is limited. Because when buyers look at recent home sales they do not distinguish between homes sold by owners and homes sold by investors, they merely look at sale prices. The Census Bureau says that at the end of 2007 there were 128 million housing units in the U.S. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Because Fitch says that a 40-year loan term represented 4 percent of all option ARMs in 2004 -- but 38 percent by 2007. A loan with four payment options may seem fairly understandable, but in the real world a lot of borrowers did not take out option ARMs because they wanted to make fully-amortizing payments. For option ARMs originated in 2006 and 2007 LoanPerformance says that 85 percent of all borrowers are paying no more than the minimum monthly payment (MMP), according to Fitch. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
quot;There are signs of a slow down in the rate of decline across the metro areas, but no evidence of a bottom," said David M. quot;Little positive news can be found when cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix report annual declines as large as -29.9% quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Are Mortgage Application Numbers On Target?
You reasonably might think that with home sales down, new construction slowing and interest rates up, it would make sense if there was a decline in mortgage applications. But you would be wron
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- Thursday, October 18, 2007
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Are Mortgage Application Numbers On Target?
You reasonably might think that with home sales down, new construction slowing and interest rates up, it would make sense if there was a decline in mortgage applications. But you would be wron
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- Thursday, October 18, 2007
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 Doti expects the Federal Reserve to hold fast in 2007, keeping the much-watched Federal Funds Rate (the short-term rate at which banks lend money to each other) at or near its current 5.25 The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
That said, foreclosure levels for 2007 are more likely to be a continuation of 2006, rather than a reprise of the early 1990s when foreclosures were rampant due to extensive job losses, high interest rates, high inflation and a resulting recession. Only a slight uptick in job creation throughout California is expected, along with low housing affordability, a larger inventory of unsold houses, declining home prices, lower sales volume and less residential construction. Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
real estate market is still declining. percent from May 2007. percent from May 2007. I am seeing a rise in foreclosures and short sales far higher than May of 2007. My last seven sales have all been bank-owned homes, with over 171 contacts from my RealtyTrac source. With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., With our beautiful Lake and hot summers, we are considered a vacation and second home community.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very good year for investing and purchasing foreclosure properties at bargain prices. At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. LONG BEACH, Calif. — The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in the state’s
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Too Soon For a Comeback
Even the National Association of Realtors, which has come out with its latest report documenting a two percent decline in existing home sales for March 2008, down 19.3 percent from March 2007, can’t be certain. Although industry analysts were anticipating this monthly decline, according to Mortgage News Daily . At present it does not appear that there is enough evidence yet to declare that a market comeback is in the offing. The bottom line is that no one can say anything with 100 percent certainty given the current state of our national economy.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
Sales of new homes have suffered the biggest decline since records began in 1963. New-home sales plunged 26.4 percent in 2007, the industry’s biggest drop in four decades, the Commerce Department said. To move the glut of unsold inventory quickly, some builders are staging flashy promotions, slashing prices and throwing in “free” incentives For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
1) The National Association of Realtors announced Monday that existing home sales nationwide were up for the month of February compared to January. 2) On Tuesday, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index reported the worst decline in home prices since the company started tracking data back in 1987. 3) The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index also came out Tuesday with its analysis showing that consumer When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic indicators
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
Our forecast calls for housing prices to decline around 5 percent before relatively strong job growth helps to bring about a recovery by late 2008.” With the housing market languishing on the downslide, Doti expects export sales — which are forecasted to increase by almost $100 billion in both 2007 and 2008 — to replace real estate as the major driver of economic growth in this country. Still, Doti, along with his colleague The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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